Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security

The Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (CFSES) is pursuing scientific understanding of multiscale, multiphysics processes to ensure safe and economically feasible storage of carbon dioxide and other byproducts of energy production without harming the environment.

CFSES Annual Meeting: February 17-18, 2016

The University of Texas welcomed all CFSES members and our External Advisory Board to our annual CFSES meeting on February 17 and 18, 2016 at the West Pickle Research Campus. Read more >>

CFSES at COP21 - Paris

Katherine Romanak (left, center) at the CFSES booth at COP21 in Paris.

Hilary Olson (above right), Assistant Director of CFSES, visits with Under Secretary for Science and Energy Lynn Orr at the U.S. Center at the United Nations Climate Change Conference at COP21 in Paris.

CFSES Wins 2nd Place in EFRC Poetry of Science Contest

Following the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) tradition, during each Principal Investigators’ meeting there is an optional contest designed to educate, inspire and entertain an intelligent, but not expert, audience with the extraordinary science, innovation, and people in the EFRCs. In 2015, the 32 EFRCs were challenged to convey the wonder of science using poetry inspired by a scientific image.

Sixteen teams took up the challenge, and submitted a rich variety of images and poems that evoked the complexities, splendor, and awe of energy science. The CFSES team was awarded 2nd place in the juried competition.

The entry that receives the most votes from the public from September 30 to October 21, 2015 11:59 pm will be given the People’s Choice Award at the Principal Investigators’ Meeting on October 26. Vote for your favorite entries here: http://www.energyfrontier.us/poetry

You can see the CFSES entry by clicking here, and don't forget to vote for CFSES in the people's choice competition!

CFSES Annual Meeting: April 9 - 10, 2015

The University of Texas welcomes all CFSES members and our External Advisory Board to our annual CFSES meeting on April 9 and 10, 2015 at our main campus. Below you will find an agenda of the meeting, as well as helpful links for different buildings on the main campus (location of the meeting, various labs) and the JJ Pickle research campus (location of the Bureau of Economic Geology, various labs). If you have any questions about the meeting, please click here to contact Ms. Barb Messmore via email.

Early Career Members

CFSES News

This December, Marc Hesse was presented with the Jackson School of Geosciences Outstanding Research Award, which recognizes research accomplishments by an individual or a team of faculty or scientists. Congratulations, Marc!

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (CPGE) at UT Austin a $12 million grant to fund carbon storage research aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The four-year DOE grant will fund a carbon storage research project at the university’s Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (CFSES), which is led by Professor Larry W. Lake. This grant is a renewal of the department’s five-year, $15.5 million research grant to the center in 2009.